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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:14433 comp.os.linux.misc:29673 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!spcuna!j51.com!j51.com!not-for-mail From: fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: ELF and dynamic loading (Re: 386BSD vs Linux) Date: 13 Nov 1994 01:00:56 -0500 Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3a4a2o$d7m@j51.com> References: <39tu2u$o8r@styx.uwa.edu.au> <39uqd6$5uq@news.nynexst.com> <MICHAELV.94Nov11124334@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.j51.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote: : In article <39uqd6$5uq@news.nynexst.com> hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu) writes: : Peter Caffin (ptcaffin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au) wrote: : : I'm thinking of setting up a network of 386s, with a large number of : : external modem lines. At this stage, I'm undecided between 386BSD and : : Linux. : [he asks for relative strengths and weaknesses...] : If you care about the software development, maybe Linux has an : edge over xxxBSD. We are finishing the ELF and dynamic loading : Arrrgh... please leave ignorant suggestions at home. : If you *care* about software development, all three systems have very : dedicated teams of developers, and all have excellent sets of : development tools. ELF is better than a.out. That is the point. : I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to by "dynamic loading". : Both NetBSD and FreeBSD have had dynamic run-time linking for over a : year now. Try to compile Perl 5.000 and see how dlopen/dlclose works under Solaris. Linux has a good ELF implementation if not better. i486-linuxelf has a better support for dlopen/dlclose than UnixWare, although UnixWare can use binutils 2.5.3 to improve that :-). BTW, patch for Perl 5.000 is ready to go and waiting for i486-linuxelf to be released to public. NH